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Toilet Repair in Anna, TX

Only 10% of the housing in Anna predates 1990, and tenure is mixed with 78% of households owning their home.

Short version

78% of occupied homes in Anna are owner-occupied and 22% are rented, which is close enough to even that the first question is which you are. A landlord is generally responsible for a fixture in a tenancy; an owner is not. Most of the housing there postdates 1990, so a 1.6 gallon fixture is the likely one, and age is rarely the explanation.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 and B25034.

Tank and Bowl is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no work, we sell no fixtures, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Who this page is for in Anna

Anna splits roughly 78% owning to 22% renting across 8,061 occupied homes, so this page has two audiences. If you own, the decision is yours. If you rent, the toilet is almost certainly not your repair and the useful action is reporting it properly.

Occupied homes in Anna	Share	Homes
Owner-occupied	78%	6,259
Rented	22%	1,802

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003 (tenure), 2023 release. Universe: 8,061 occupied housing units.

What the age of Anna’s housing suggests

Only 10% of housing units in Anna were built before 1990, and 82% went up from 2000 onwards. Anything installed new in those homes was built to the 1.6 gallon standard or below it.

That makes an original pre-standard fixture unusual here — though the data dates the house, and a fixture can be older than the room it is in if it came out of somewhere else.

Housing in Anna	Share
Built before 1940	1%
Built 1940 to 1989	9%
Built 1990 onwards	90%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Universe: 8,558 housing units, including vacant ones — a different universe from the tenure table above. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement

What is actually wrong with it

Four complaints cover nearly all of it, and they are different faults rather than degrees of one. Running is the flapper or the fill valve. Nothing at all is usually the chain or a blockage. Water on the floor is four possibilities, one of which is not a leak. A weak flush is the water level, the chain, or the specification.

Two questions are worth asking whoever comes: which part they tested before reaching a conclusion, and whether anything under the fixture needs attention. The second one is what separates a repair that lasts from one that repeats.

Other Texas towns we route in

Carrollton 58% owner-occupied · 56% built before 1990
Garland 62% owner-occupied · 75% built before 1990
Italy 71% owner-occupied · 57% built before 1990
Spring 71% owner-occupied · 31% built before 1990
Palmer 87% owner-occupied · 45% built before 1990

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Texas licenses are issued by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

If the dye test pointed at the flapper, that is a part, not a fixture.Worth saying on the call, because it changes what somebody arrives with. We connect you to a contractor covering your area and you are never charged. Past toilets, Anna is covered for whatever has gone wrong.

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